Shell and Spoon study

Just a quick oil painting study (about 1 hour), playing around with color and texture. Painting shells is such a fun challenge- I can't wait to do some more.

Lucy Blueskies

I finally got around to some figure drawing this week at the Boston Figurative Art Center. They had a young Burlesque model, Lucy Blueskies, who was great. I got a few fun sketches and a watercolor in:

Still Life Dump

So while I am waiting for some illustrations to come out of NDA land, here are some quick still life paintings that I did in between jobs.

"I Aten't Dead"

To quote my favorite Discworld character. I just moved to Boston. And while times the NYC withdrawl gets to feeling a bit much, I just look out my REAL STUDIO window to my LAWN and somehow I think I can go on.

So I've been lax, I admit. The lead up to the move, the move itself (happening quite suddenly a month before schedule) and getting adjusted... sure I've been making art- just not sharing. Only some of it due to contractual constraints. That ends now. I've got a decent backlog waiting to see daylight and it's time to get back onto communicating with the rest of the world.

The above self portrait was done in a little over an hour one morning when I looked at a still-wet palette from another piece and figured I shouldn't let all that paint go to waste. I call it "You're Coffee's Getting Cold."

Still Life

So I have been doing a lot of charcoal stuff lately and decided, after being inspired by Rob Rey's beautiful still lifes, I wanted to spend some time painting to keep up my practice. I haven't done a proper still life in... a long time. So I set one up all nice like- even did some clever umbrella action to control the light. Here's the set-up:



And the full painting:



Because I'm me, I spent longer on it than I had originally planned- so tomorrow I think I will set up a smaller one, stick to my time-limit and see what happens. I was just too happy to be playing with paints today to stop.